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by qplex 9y ago
What you are saying is that "I can pay with currency $x anywhere, I just need to exchange it first" If you use Visa/MasterCard, you will not pay _in_ BTC but in dollars/euros/whatever.
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by qplex 9y ago
>"As long as you only need one TCP port forwarded, SSH is a much faster choice, because it has less overhead than SSH." OpenVPN is way more robust solution for tunneling though. I've found that UDP tunnels work sometimes b
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by qplex 9y ago
>no third-party intermediary ... whose authorization is needed to make a transaction. This is what makes it cash-like. You need to get your transactions accepted to the ledger and you need to pay for that to happen as well (I guess wheth
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by qplex 9y ago
It's not at all that obvious. Bitcoin is _not_ like actual physical localized nation-state backed cash, nor does it function like one. In your list of examples Bitcoin is the hero that saves individuals from the oppression of a governm
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by qplex 9y ago
Sure, to be pedantic about it, but the point of "not breaking userspace" is not a technical nitpick on browser extensions. It's the guideline from Linus and for a good reason. It's impossible to base work on shifting san
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by qplex 9y ago
I agree with you about consistency but 792ms is something though! I remember when we upgraded from a 28.8k modem to ISDN. My Quake got a lot better purely because of lower latency. A friend was left behind on modem and he could tell the di
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by qplex 9y ago
I have to agree with this. If you provide an API you'd better commit to it. A lot of work is being wasted because of this. "Do not break userspace".
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by qplex 9y ago
>makes modern MMOs look like Fisher Price editions. From the point of view of the MMORPGs the MUDs don't look or sound much like anything. Literally.
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by qplex 9y ago
>Granted, recall is imperfect and different every each time. Still, one can memorize and recall some things with almost perfect accuracy (at least over time), for example phone numbers.
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by qplex 9y ago
What a disgenius article. The human brain is not a digital computer, but it does process information and store memories.
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by qplex 9y ago
Funny that for other stuff it usually takes 100 years to be considered antique.
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by qplex 9y ago
Regulation obviously does not work if you have a corrupted and dysfunctional goverment (and law). In any case, you can not expect individual people to just "take the consequences" of bad actors and move on.
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by qplex 9y ago
I remember them being used for "extreme" overclocking. Nowadays people in that department seem to have moved to the elegant solution of manually pouring LN2 on to a cup that sits on top of the CPU (or GPU). How about water cooling
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by qplex 9y ago
>Who care if the kernel, heavily modified and buried 100 layers deep is Open Source if all the apps users actually use are proprietary? I guess by this definition any open sourced library that an "end user app" uses doesn'
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by qplex 9y ago
No. She couldn't attract metal objects with the magnet anymore. "Bottle caps refused to leave the ground, and finally, stopped responding altogether."
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by qplex 9y ago
The old Intel driver works under Ubuntu 14.05 LTS. And you can get them working on newer releases also. [1] The Ubuntu Wiki on this is horribly misinformed and out of date. The gma500 driver included in Linux also works very well, but lacks
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by qplex 9y ago
The reverse-engineered open source gma500 driver included in Linux works very well for basic stuff but lacks features such as H.264 decoding and 3D acceleration. The old Intel drivers can be patched to run on newer kernels, you also need to
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by qplex 9y ago
Why is there a dedicated 10GB partition for /usr/X11R6?
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by qplex 9y ago
So if your machine/os/whatever does not run properly you might either fix it yourself or pay somebody else to fix it. But really, no need to complain about the nice things that you got for free.
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by qplex 9y ago
I get your point. The CEO of Boeing can probably still afford to take a flight on a plane made by his company, and that probably is true of an average worker of a Boeing factory as well. So let me rephrase: if people working in a factory ca
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by qplex 9y ago
Probably because you can use a search engine without owning one. And yes, I would definetly say it's a problem if workers in a factory can not afford the goods the factory produces.
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by qplex 9y ago
Oh, idk. The modern equivalent of Plato's Cave?
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by qplex 9y ago
Can an average Foxconn worker afford an iPhone?
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by qplex 9y ago
Except here what you label as "pseudo spiritual" is actually the more realistic, scientific and moral way of seeing things. The iPhones and Supermarkets are of the dream reality. A world without consequences, where the Foxconn Fac
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by qplex 10y ago
So are you saying that Microsoft releases the necessary API specifications for writing a replacement for DWM.exe? My point was that when the source code is available, the users will even write complete replacements, instead of just adding s
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by qplex 10y ago
Oh, don't worry. It's quite credible. "Users" empowered by the source code do not just simply make changes, they write complete replacements for parts of the system. For example: On an open system you have plenty of choi
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by qplex 10y ago
Yes, some of it, but not your actual network information (friends, contacts), at least not in a way that is meaningful outside of those services.
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by qplex 10y ago
But how would you verify that YourFacebookFriend is YourFacebookFriend on some other service?
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by qplex 10y ago
So does one export their existing network information to these open formats? I don't think the companies who currently hold that information will part with it willingly.
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by qplex 10y ago
Life does not take the shortest route to entropy. The original point of the parent was obviously cost as in money. My point was that "only expending your own resources" as in "you need to pay for your resources (with your own

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